jmike

Do I give it 1 or 10 stars when it deserves both? With a stiff British upper lip, everyone acts 100% serious in this unentionally funny, absolute clasic bad film for the ages. If you enjoy bad films that are meant to be serious but are inept and hystrical, then you must see Trog! To begin with, Joan Crawford "get me my hypo gun" stars as a "famous" Anthroplogist whose students discover the "missing link" in a conviently located cave nearby. Crawford studies the man, known as "Trog." They feed him rubber snakes and he wears little Trog shoes and sits in a square straw lined "Trog box" in a prison cell in her lab. Sometimes Trog is nice but he gets very angry when the music is changed from classical music to Rock and Roll! The great Michael Gough gives it his best as an annoying citizen who hates Trog but then is killed by him when Trog goes on his rampage. Before that, Crawford and some other "scientists" tap into Trog's brain which then plays stock footage of dinosaurs from another movie (despite the fact that dinosaurs and Trog lived hundreds of millions years apart). Crawford was involved with Pepsi through her husband, so there are Pepsi product placements at Trog's cave. Joan Crawford's acting is very professional here. If she was drunk, as some claim, you absolutely can't tell, but much of her dialog is hysterical. The Trog costume is laughable. The movie's "science" is some of absolute worst ever! Everyone is completely serious! In other words, THIS FILM IS GREAT! A classic bad film for the ages. Something you absolutely must see if you enjoy this sort of film.

God bless the Vinegar Syndrome people for restoring this classic bad masterpiece from the original negative (under the theatrical release title Hell Island) and releasing it on Blu Ray (so I can finally retire my greatly inferior commercial VHS copy). If the Library of Congress was collecting and preserving the world's greatest "So bad they are good" films, this one would be in the permanent collection. I have studied bad film all my life and this is one of the greatest examples ever made because it's NOT CAMP, the film and everyone in it are COMPLETELY SERIOUS! You can't make a bad film like this on purpose. They tried to make a scary monster attack film but failed miserably and wonderfully at the same time. But unlike boring bad films, Attack of the Beast Creatures is thoroughly entertaining. The film was made on a small budget, but with a lot of heart. There is a shipwreck in the "North Atlantic" and surivors in a life boat think they have found "Greenland" but it's warm! There are deadly pools of acid on the island and then there are the "Beast Creatures" which are hilarious puppets with little moving feet that make a distinct noise. The Beast Creatures worship a carved wooden idol! They eat people too and can strip a man and turn him into a classroom sketon. With the exception of the "jerk" character Morgan, the acting is absolutely awful but in a wonderful sort of way because the actors are trying their best. I strongly recommend the new Blu Ray release. Again, this is an absolute, top 10 of all time "So Bad it's Good" films. I can't recommend it highly enough!

I write this 20 years after the last episode was made and this top quality science fiction show has stood the test of time and is as fresh and interesting to watch now as the day it was first broadcast. The show's #1 strength was great writing and story telling. It's never boring and the plot moves along nicely. The chacters are interesting, complex and often flawed. The acting is great and the cast really works well together. The show is beautifully photographed and visually interesting. Yes, the show has some puppets from the Henson folks, but they are so well executed, and wonderfully voiced (Jonathan Hardy is especially good as Rygel) that they almost seem real. To be honest, the puppets seem MORE real than most of the bad computer generated stuff you normally see now. This is just a great, classic, and timeless science fiction TV show. I feel certain people will still watch Farscape 50 years from now and enjoy it just as much.